The class and standard series of reading books. 5 pt. [in 7].

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Página 154 - DOWN in a green and shady bed A modest violet grew ; Its stalk was bent, it hung its head, As if to hide from view. And yet it was a lovely flower, Its colors bright and fair ! It might have graced a rosy bower, Instead of hiding there.
Página 145 - I wish that his hands had been placed on my head, That his arm had been thrown around me, And that I might have seen his kind look when he said, Let the little ones come unto me.
Página 132 - The children then began to sigh, And all their merry chat was o'er ; And yet they felt, they knew not why, More glad than they had done before.
Página 145 - Yet still to His footstool in prayer I may go, • And ask for a share in His love ; And if I thus earnestly seek Him below, I shall see Him and hear Him above...
Página 131 - When, hark ! a gentle hand they hear, Low tapping at the bolted door ; And thus, to gain their willing ear, A feeble voice was heard t...
Página 95 - Somebody is now dying," thought the little girl, — for her old grandmother, the only person who had ever loved her, and who was now dead, had told her, that, when a star falls, it is a sign that a soul is going up to heaven.
Página 132 - A feeble voice was heard to implore : ' Cold blows the blast across the moor, The sleet drives hissing in the wind ; Yon toilsome mountain lies before, A dreary, treeless waste behind. ' My eyes are weak and dim with age ; No road, no path can I descry ; And these poor rags ill stand the rage Of such a keen, inclement sky. ' So faint I am, these tottering feet No more my feeble frame can bear ; My sinking heart forgets to beat, And drifting snows my tomb prepare.
Página 100 - LITTLE CHILDREN, LOVE ONE ANOTHER." A LITTLE girl, with a happy look, Sat slowly reading a ponderous book, All bound with velvet, and edged with gold, And its weight was more than the child could hold ; Yet dearly she loved to ponder it o'er, And every day she prized it more ; For it said — and she looked at her smiling mother — It said, " Little children, love one another.
Página 101 - The little girl did as her Bible taught, And pleasant, indeed, was the change it wrought ; For the boy looked up in glad surprise, To meet the light of her loving eyes ; His heart was full, he could not speak, But he pressed a kiss on his sister's cheek ; And God looked down on the happy mother.
Página 132 - So faint I am — these tottering feet No more my feeble frame can bear ; My sinking heart forgets to beat, And drifting snows my tomb prepare. " Open your hospitable door, And shield me from the biting blast ; Cold, cold it blows across the moor, The weary moor that I have passed...

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